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Oregon Coast Birding - Nesting Seabirds
Another interesting aspect of observing nesting seabirds is where they chose to build their nesting sites, and whether they are active during the daytime or at nighttime. The Birder can chose to observe these different bird species either staying close to their nesting site locations where their chicks reside or venturing out to where the adult birds hunt for their food. Several oceanfront parks offer the chance to observe a variety of bird species all coexisting together within the same coastal habitat area including such popular sites as the Cape Meares State Recreation Site, the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area and the Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint. Sometimes, the Birder can find different bird species feeding together peacefully in one another’s main feeding grounds. Great egrets and Great blue herons can be found feeding along ocean shorelines with pelagic and double-crested cormorants swimming nearby. On other occasions, these same bird species can be found hunting together for small fishes in coastal rivers and estuarine bays.


Photo of adult pelagic cormorants incubating their eggs along the cliff ledges found at the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, one of the best spots available to Wildlife Explorers for observing these unique seabirds in the wild during their breeding season when they ashore to mate and rear their young.
Photo of adult pelagic cormorants watching over their young chicks resting in their individual nest sites composed of plant debris, seaweed and guano all cemented together for attachment to the cliff faces for added protection from predators as well as positioning the nest towards the ocean waters where the adults can quickly reach their food supply of small fishes and marine invertebrates to be later regurgitated to their young.
Photo of Double-crested cormorants and pelagic cormorants resting on a dock built in the waters of the Yaquina River, a part of an inland hunting expedition searching for small fishes to prey on even though both of these seabirds will normally be found closer to their nesting sites along the coastline or their main feeding grounds located out to sea.
Photo of a Double-crested cormorant and a Great egret drying out after feeding in the tidewaters of the Yaquina River, a peaceful moment when two very different species of birds generally residing in separate coastal habitats share the same feeding grounds whether along the ocean shorelines or within the estuarine waters of bays and rivers.


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